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  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: No Clear Winners
    D Suba Chandran    ·   17 Apr, 2013    ·    #3882    ·    Commentary    
    The IPCS debate by PR Chari and Adm Vijay Shankar, in response to Michael Krepon’s commentary, analyses the various facets of the nuclear race in South Asia. Krepon’s primary focus revolves around two issues - highlighting the nuclea...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: The Elephant and the Dilemma of Nuclear Force Planning
    Vijay Shankar    ·   16 Apr, 2013    ·    #3881    ·    Commentary    
    One of the open secrets of the Indian security establishment is the evolution of its nuclear weapons capability. The process did not follow any established norms that guide the discernment of theory into a security strategy or the rendition of t...
  • Special Commentary: India’s Missile Defence
    Amit Gupta    ·   12 Apr, 2013    ·    #3880    ·    Commentary    
    India has tested a two-tier missile defence shield and is getting ready to place it around its two major cities, Delhi and Mumbai. There are three issues that emerge from the deployment of this capability: will it work effectively; how will it a...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: The Strategic Entanglement
    PR Chari    ·   11 Apr, 2013    ·    #3879    ·    Commentary    
    Comparing countries to animals is an absorbing pastime for foreign policy analysts to discover their essential character. It is, therefore, no accident that the US has chosen the eagle to be its national symbol to emphasize its aggressive, risk-...
  • Mullahs to Monks: Why is our Clergy Angry and Violent?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Apr, 2013    ·    #3878    ·    Commentary    
    Few weeks earlier, in this column, there was a discussion on why the youth is angry; titled Angry Young Men (Rising Kashmir, 14 March 2013), the commentary attempted to explore the reasons behind the anger amongst the youth. As a part of this...
  • J&K: The Man is Gone but Questions Remain
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   09 Apr, 2013    ·    #3877    ·    Commentary    
    Tension over the hanging of Afzal Guru might have subsided but the scar it has left on the minds of people would continue to haunt the state. Also the embarrassment Government of India had to face at the International level at least over the way...
  • Myanmar: Expanding Naval Ties with India
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   08 Apr, 2013    ·    #3876    ·    Commentary    
    During March 2013, there was a port call to Vishakhapatnam in India’s eastern coast by the Myanmar Navy flotilla, comprising of a frigate and a corvette. While India is opening up and encouraging such interactions, what is significant abou...
  • J&K: The Deep Divide Within
    Kashinath Pandit    ·   07 Apr, 2013    ·    #3875    ·    Commentary    
    The hypocrisy of the workable alliance between NC and Congress in the State lies exposed in the aftermath of Afzal Guru’s execution. Neither the PDP, nor its allies on the Opposition benches, or the majority of the NC ruling party members ...
  • Myanmar: Violence in Meikhtila
    Sampa Kundu    ·   06 Apr, 2013    ·    #3874    ·    Commentary    
    More than 40 people have been killed in Meikhtila (or Meiktila), during March 2013 in the violence between the majority Buddhists and the minority Muslim minority. Last year, there were two rounds of violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Rakh...
  • Japan: Two Years After Fukushima
    Rajaram Panda    ·   06 Apr, 2013    ·    #3873    ·    Commentary    
    Two years after Japan suffered the triple disaster on 11 March 2011, the country is still cleaning up the nuclear mess in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Though the world’s interests in its impact have somewhat waned, publ...
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